Megrahi

[wendilla]

Just watching police escort for Magrahi. Why don't they just chuck him out the door and let him take his chances and find his own way to the airport. I saw what happened at Lockerbie.End of rant no point in saying anymore.Hope someone shoots him and he suffers a long and lingering death.

[Gromit]

Don't be fooled by the 'compassionate grounds' reason for his release.

He is almost certainly innocent, and had lodged an appeal. The Government desperately did not want the appeal to take place because of what it would reveal.

Libyan coughed up to this crime to be reaccepted back into the International community because it had become a pyrrha state and put on the 'Axis of Evil'. Admitting to Lockerbie, even though they had nothing to do with it, quickly facilitated their rehabilitation. Another country (probably Iran) was responsible.

[shiznit]

Released for compassionate reasons!!!!!!, what about all the families of his victims???, they never got the option to say goodbye. He should rot in prison, alone in the dark and in extreme pain. What is wrong with our judicial system, its a joke!!!!!

[shiznit]

You really believe that Gromit??????

[Sqad]

I agree with gromit.

Almost certainly he wasn't involved to any degree.

Almost certainly he is terminally ill.

Almost certainly compassion must come into play, if you accept the above premises.

[Gromit]

shiznit

Yes I believe that, but more importantly, many families of his victims also believe that Magrahi is innocent.

The most vocal, Dr Jim Swire, who lost his daughter in the tragedy, is a campaigner for the truth about Lockerbie, and he too believes that Magrahi was not responsible for all those deaths.

http://www.lockerbietruth.com/

[wendilla]

Nothing really much to debate about .He was found guilty given life and should have served life. We are too soft in this country.

[Sqad]

wendilla...many would agree with you...........many on both sides of the Atlantic would disagree with you.

[Kim A]

I agree with Gromit and with Jim Swire. Mr Magrahi always seemed a little too convenient a perpetrator, given that there was such a long gap between the event and his eventual conviction, during which time Libya was 'out in the cold'. I've always held the belief that their refusal to 'give up' someone for the crime was because they didn't actually have anyone to give up. Then , suddenly, surpise, surprise, Ghadaffi's no longer persona non grata with the western world and there's a convenient scapegoat. I've always suspected that there were massive covert machinations behind the scenes, as well as those overt ones that were televised and reported on at the time. After all, we and the Americans were baying for blood and for someone to atone for the crime and it didn't really matter who we got, as long as someone was prepared to take the fall for it. I wondered at the time what sort of deal Mr Magrahi did with both our and his government and what he personally got out of it. Why else would you let yourself be put in the frame?

[Gromit]

wendilla

It is important that the guilty are brought to justice. Nothing is served by an innocent man rotting in jail.

We should now support the call for a Public Inquiry because there are so many doubts about this conviction.

[Kim A]

Quite.

[Bobbisox]

sorry folks, but I am with wendilla on this one, he should have gone back to Lybya in a wooden box, a luxury that was not afforded to the 271 people who lost their lives that day over the skies of Lockerbie

[wendilla]

All your replies you have given are no one knows what went on you are all just saying what you have been reading and heard. Didn't take him long to walk up steps of the plane went up better that I would.

[Gromit]

Iran were all most certainly the culprits, but we were seeking Iran's help in freeing the British hostages in Lebanon, so the case against them was not pursued.

[Sqad]

wendilla.

Didn't take him long to walk up steps of the plane went up better that I would. didn't understand that paragraph.

[steg]

I think he is guilty, as did the judges. I think he should be in jail till he dies, but support the Scottish Governments decision to let him go home to die.

[jake-the-peg]

It doesn't matter what people believe it's the result of a court verdict that counts.

You can't go around letting people out because there's a general perception that someone was innocent - that's what a court of appeal is for.

It should be done in the open.

If it's a deal with Lybia like the IRA one that should be public, if it's an unsafe coviction ditto.

So we have to take it at face value of compassionate grounds.

Personally I think he should be returned to a Lybian gaol

[wendilla]

Squad didn't you see him .He did not use his stick till he got to the steps . Then he walked unaided.Even the tv commentators are on about it. The man is guilty and as Bobbysox said he should have gone back in a wooden box.

[Sqad]

wendilla...no I didn't but I understand now.

[Bobbisox]

it flies in the face of the relatives of those who died,think for one moment how they are feeling today please

[Kim A]

Again, I agree with Gromit. It pays to have a broad, rather than a polarised view of world affairs at any given time and to be able to see events happening not in isolation, but in a wider context. Whilst it's very easy to react with one's heart and emotions to an event of magnitude and, let's face it, that is how pretty much everyone does react at the time, often other things happening in other part of the world impact on the same situation. The situation in the Middle and Far East has to be looked at as a whole, not as a series of isolated incidents. There are always machinations within machinations and it pays to have a bit of background historical and political information before going off on a rant.